NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (1695MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +577%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

15.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.62 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

244.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Neptune

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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